BIO & RESUME HIGHLIGTS

Equally versed in opera and theatre, Meaghan holds an MM in Voice from the University of Kansas and an MFA in Acting from Indiana University. She specializes in combining her vocal and dramatic training to create vivid productions with energized connections between the music and the action on stage. She is currently a Professor of Practice in Music Theatre at the College of the Holy Cross where she teaches acting and performance for singers, voice and speech, and directs a yearly musical.

This past summer Meaghan directed Brigadoon and the contemporary opera Cold Mountain at the Seagle Festival in upstate New York.

The previous summer she directed Don Pasquale at Opera Saratoga. The Schenectady Daily Gazette noted that the production “delight[ed] with modern touches” and “breathed fun and laughter for the large crowd, which raucously and constantly showed its pleasure with huge applause and hoots of delight.” Meaghan also directed With Blood, With Ink at the Seagle Festival in 2023, which was featured in a post by Opera America. This contemporary opera by Daniel Crozier and Peter Krask premiered at Fort Worth Opera in 2014 with Meaghan in the cast and on the original recording by Albany Records which is streaming on Spotify.

Meaghan performed on the stages of Virginia Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Saratoga, Chautauqua Opera, Kentucky Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, and Ash Lawn Opera, among others, garnering positive reviews from Opera News, The Wall Street Journal, and The Dallas Morning news. She has also performed plays and musicals with Indiana Festival Theatre, Festival 56, and the New Theatre in Kansas City. 

More recently she has turned her focus toward directing. Her directing highlights include projects with Opera Saratoga (Don Pasquale and Pinocchio), The Seagle Festival (Brigadoon, Cold Mountain, With Blood, With Ink, Hello, Dolly!, Once Upon a Mattress, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Island of Tulipatan, and the world premiere of Harmony); College of the Holy Cross (Sweeney Todd, Oklahoma!, Company, She Loves Me, Cabaret, and Broadway’s Little Women); Landlocked Opera at William Jewell (The Old Maid and the Thief); Shenandoah Conservatory (Opera Up Close), Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (Amahl and the Night Visitors). 

Meaghan has participated extensively in new work productions and workshops. As a performer she workshopped new pieces with the John Duffy Composer Institute, the At First Sight Festival at Indiana University, the American Center for New Works Development at the Seagle Festival, and Frontiers with Fort Worth Opera, as well as participating in masterclasses and workshops with Ricky Ian Gordon and Jake Heggie. Further, Meaghan worked as a director and libretto advisor on four newly commissioned works with New Voices Opera at Indiana University, before participating in the workshop of Harmony with The American Center for New Works Development at Seagle Festival. Meaghan was proud to direct the premiere of this new opera by Robert Carl and Russel Banks at the Seagle Festival in 2021. The process was featured on Mountain Lake PBS. Click here to see rehearsal and performance footage from Meaghan’s productions of Harmony and The Island of Tulipatan highlighted in that story.